Re: SRA/Countrylink Outback Explorer

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

<chris@enet21.com.au> wrote in message
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> According to a article in the Sun Herald 7/5/00 on the withdrawn Outback
> Explorer, a Gail Gregory who is the countrylink general manager said
> "Countrylink had been unable to replace the train in Australia and the
> cost was too high to bring one from England so it was taken out of
> service".
>
> I'm assuming that they were trying to buy 2nd hand BR stock - WHY?. As I
> would have thought that they would have tried a local manufacturer first
> if buying new.

There is also all of those Overland cars not being used any more. An AJ
would be great to travel from SYD to BHQ - or better still, make it a
through train to ADL, twice per week, to complement the IP and Ghan.

Dave